Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

The finance industry is widely thought of as being morally suspect. Even those who work in finance tend to compartmentalize between their personal lives and how they get ahead professionally. Mihir Desai argues that not only is this preconception completely false but it’s detrimental to those who work in finance as well as the industry itself.

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Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

The New Yorker

One discipline reduces behavior to elegantly simple rules; the other wallows in our full, complex particularity. What can they learn from each other? The idea that there is a gap between the world of economics and the wider world is also a theme in “The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return” by the Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai.

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How to succeed in finance...by reading Jane Austen

How to succeed in finance...by reading Jane Austen

Business News Network

Mihir A. Desai, Mizuho Financial Group's professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School, joins BNN to discuss his new book: "The Wisdom of Finance." The book compares the key themes of finance to philosophers, authors and essayists, in an effort to make finance easier to learn.

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Why Wall Street Went Astray: Eight Ways To Humanize Finance

Why Wall Street Went Astray: Eight Ways To Humanize Finance

Forbes

Desai’s new book is unlike almost any business book you’ve ever read, with eight chapters packed with stories from English and American literature explaining the sometimes esoteric concepts of risk management in simple everyday language and showing how they apply to every aspect of our lives.

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